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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
5
Reporters said lines stayed busy as local returns poured in and voters asked about Taft Bryan and county candidates. Women callers and eager residents left numbers for updates while election officials rushed to provide definite results.
Muscatine residents who were abroad return to vote in city elections and state university. The mass travel disrupts sessions at State University of Iowa and local schools as many students leave campus to exercise their franchise.
The Journal, via Iowa Telephone, offered presidential election results from the East and extra details not carried by the Associated Press. Reports reached districts by phone faster than telegraph in some cases, and the bulletins were authentic and accurate for their time.
A large crowd forms on Iowa Avenue outside the Muscatine Journal to hear presidential returns. Megaphones and a horn carried reports to listeners hundreds of feet away as bulletins posted in the window drew early crowds from 6:30 p.m. The Chronicle notes mild weather kept the throng present well past nine o'clock.
Advertisement notes Dr. King's New Life Pills claim to cure bowel trouble and appendicitis fears. Denotes product price 25 cents and Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as seller.
A historical table compares state by state vote totals for McKinley and Bryan in the 1900 election. It lists each state’s counts, showing overall totals with Alabama to Wyoming and the national sums 7,208,224 for McKinley and 6,358,780 for Bryan.
The paper reports the three election vote totals for the second congressional district from 1902 1904 and 1906 compiled by counties The note promises a full comparison with yesterday’s election results in another section of the issue A feature item announces a forthcoming Conversation on Music with Paderewski and other prominent musicians including Gabrilowitsch and Kneitsel
Muscatine county official canvass of 1906 shows past vote totals for governor secretary of state representative state offices and county ticket positions. Early reports predict heavier turnout this year with counts listed for candidates and offices including auditor treasurer clerk sheriff recorder attorney surveyor coroner and superintendent of schools.
A terse medical notice claims a fierce attack of malaria liver derangement and duey trouble can be easily cured by the remedy offered by the advertiser. The brief item provides no further scientific detail or credentials.
The Muscatine county vote shows Roosevelt leading by a large margin with 1 466 to 867 in a statewide context. The report analyzes town by town tallies to illustrate the county’s political leanings and compares Me wr results across municipalities.
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